>You closed a thread about Iran but you did not forbid any post about
>Iran in general as long as they are relevant to the list.
>>Or did we miss something ?
>>>Jean-Christophe Helary
Oh, please, Jean-Christophe. Yoshie is not interested in "Iran in general".
She is proselytizing for the government of Iran in general and the
President Ahmadinejad's in particular. Furthermore, it is one thing to
allow a presentation of heterodox views and another to be subjected to
daily doses of same. We actually had a rather lengthy defense of closed
borders by Louis Godena before that thread was closed.
Furthermore, Marxmail is not Hyde Park where you can set up a soap box and
espouse any viewpoint in the name of socialism. I have editorial discretion
in the same way that Yoshie does at MRZine. I try to operate the list
within the broad parameters of the kind of Marxism you'll find in Socialist
Register, MR, Science and Society, NLR and the party presses (with obvious
exceptions made for the lunatic left.)
Beyond that, I have a responsibility to function as a kind of chairperson
here. When you have acrimonious threads that go on ad infinitum, people
unsub. Michael Perelman has already told PEN-L that it needed to drop the
Iran stuff because it was forcing his subscribers to begin to unsub who
were sick of the repetitiveness.
Finally, we all have a responsibility to come to this list without any kind
of agenda. As so many of us are party members or ex-party members, that is
a real challenge because we are literally trained to proselytize. I tend to
be a bit forgiving when it comes to causes like Venezuela or Cuba, but I
certainly am a lot less forgiving when it comes to the Islamic Republic or
Iran which incorporates absolutely none of the values that Marx, Engels,
Lenin, Luxemburg, Mao or Trotsky stood for. Indeed, it rose to power over
the dead and tortured bodies of people who defended those values.
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